He worked for A. and T. Burt until World War II, when he became a soldier and served in the Middle East, Italy and the Pacific.
As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the 1951 snap election for the Gisborne electorate.
[2] He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea.
[1] In 1955, he married Mona Lindsay at the Presbyterian Church in St Albans, Christchurch.
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